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Jason Watkins is an English stage, film and television actor. He played the lead role in the two-part drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He has also played William Herrick in Being Human, Gavin Strong in Trollied, Simon Harwood in W1A and Gordon Shakespeare in the film series Nativ... more

Jason Watkins is an English stage, film and television actor. He played the lead role in the two-part drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He has also played William Herrick in Being Human, Gavin Strong in Trollied, Simon Harwood in W1A and Gordon Shakespeare in the film series Nativity.

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Tomorrow Never Dies
(1997)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Roger Spottiswoode
Cast:
Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Ricky Jay
6.5
56%
52
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The Golden Compass
(2007)
Adventure, Fantasy
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Chris Weitz
Cast:
Nicole Kidman, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Ben Walker
6.1
42%
51
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
(2004)
Comedy, Romance
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Beeban Kidron
Cast:
Renée Zellweger, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
6.0
27%
44
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Wild Child
(2008)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Nick Moore
Cast:
Emma Roberts, Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer, Lexi Ainsworth, Natasha Richardson
6.1
41%
N/A
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Split Second
(1992)
Horror, Science Fiction
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Tony Maylam, Ian Sharp
Cast:
Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Michael J. Pollard, Alastair Duncan, Alun Armstrong
6.2
N/A
26
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Nativity!
(2009)
Comedy, Family
Martin Freeman is lovelorn teacher Mr Maddens, a former am-dram star whose girlfriend (Ashley Jensen) dumped him over Christmas five years ago and upped sticks, inexplicably, to La-La Land. Yuletide cheer is not his forte, but he's forced to drum some up when Pam Ferris's headmistress earmarks him to direct the Nativity play.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Debbie Isitt
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Ricky Tomlinson, Pam Ferris, John Sessions
6.5
48%
N/A
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High Hopes
(1988)
Comedy, Drama
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cy...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Mike Leigh
Cast:
Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson, Lesley Manville
7.6
100%
84
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Miss Austen Regrets
(2008)
Drama
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Jeremy Lovering
Cast:
Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Jack Huston
7.1
N/A
N/A
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The Virgin Queen
(2005)
Drama, History, Romance
The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.
Runtime:
237 min
Director:
Coky Giedroyc
Cast:
Anne-Marie Duff, Sienna Guillory, Ian Hart, Tom Hardy, Dexter Fletcher
7.7
N/A
N/A
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The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
(2014)
Drama
This drama tells the real-life story of retired schoolteacher Christopher Jefferies who was initially questioned by police as a suspect in the murder of Jo Yeates who rented a flat from him. He was vilified by the press, partly on account of his eccentric appearance and long flowing hair, even after he had been released on bail by the ...
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Roger Michell
Cast:
Jason Watkins, Shaun Parkes, Anna Maxwell Martin, Ben Caplan, Peter Polycarpou
8.0
N/A
N/A
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Confetti
(2006)
Comedy, Romance
A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Debbie Isitt
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Jessica Hynes, Olivia Colman, Stephen Mangan, Robert Webb
5.7
57%
57
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Sixty Six
(2006)
Comedy
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Paul Weiland
Cast:
Gregg Sulkin, Catherine Tate, Peter Serafinowicz, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Marsan
6.8
64%
57
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Hampstead
(2017)
Comedy, Romance
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop a...
Runtime:
102 min
Cast:
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, James Norton, Lesley Manville, Jason Watkins
5.9
44%
47
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Circus
(2000)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he hires Leo to kill Gloria, Julius's wife. Leo does it, but then Julius shows up with the murder on tape, saying Gloria isn't his wife - it's blackmail. Leo's bookie, Troy, is also closing ...
Runtime:
95 min
Cast:
John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Eddie Izzard, Fred Ward
5.7
9%
N/A
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Lost Christmas
(2011)
Drama
Urban fairytale set in Manchester. A series of tragic events that blight a young boy's life are reversed one Christmas Eve, giving him and those around him the happy ending that they were destined to have.
Runtime:
88 min
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
(2012)
Comedy, Family
This sequel to the popular British comedy sees a new teacher (David Tennant) take over. When he enters his school in the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, he and his pregnant wife, and the schoolchildren, embark on an epic road trip that ends up with a birth and a donkey, where he must embrace his fears and become a hero.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Debbie Isitt
Cast:
David Tennant, Marc Wootton, Pam Ferris, Jessica Hynes, Joanna Page
5.4
36%
N/A
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Dirk Gently
(2010)
Comedy, Mystery
Drama featuring writer Douglas Adams's holistic detective Dirk Gently, who operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. An investigation into a missing cat is inextricably linked to a chance encounter with an old friend, an exploding warehouse, a missing billionaire and a plate of biscuits.
Runtime:
60 min
Director:
Damon Thomas
Cast:
Stephen Mangan, Darren Boyd, Helen Baxendale, Doreen Mantle, Jason Watkins
7.5
N/A
N/A
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Wired
(2008)
Crime, Thriller
Louise Evans is a single mother who works as a customer advisor for big bucks investors at a slick, pin-striped bank. On a night out with her best friend Anna (Charlie Brooks) she’s introduced to Anna’s slippery new boyfriend Phillip (Laurence Fox). Phillip makes Louise an indecent proposal: accept a briefcase full of money in return f...
Runtime:
180 min
Cast:
Laurence Fox, Jodie Whittaker, Toby Stephens, Adam James, Charlie Brooks
6.7
N/A
N/A
In Denial of Murder
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In Denial of Murder
(2004)
Crime
Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was ...
Runtime:
120 min
Cast:
Stephen Tompkinson, Jason Watkins, Caroline Catz, David Troughton, June Watson
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Love, Nina
(2016)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
BBC adaptation of the bestselling memoir of Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina details her years as a nanny in the fashionable literary London of the 1980s via Nina's letters to her sister Victoria
Runtime:
150 min
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